Thousands Without Power in Illinois

Yes, another power outage! Ameren reporting that 11000 homes without power tonight!

This one closer to home and due to equipment failure... this is becoming a common theme it seems. What is terrible with this is, it has been
unseasonably hot around here! Tomorrow it is going to be in the upper 90's! I know there was a thread on transformers exploding recently around the
globe and talk on another site of widespread power grid failures to come in the near future... I wonder and am even concerned that there may some
truth to those stories. Do any of you know anything about that?

If my memory serves me correctly, they increased their rates a couple of years ago by a ghastly amount and there was controversy about it. People are
being squeezed til their eyes are ready to pop already...

i wonder if this has anything to do with that solar flare warning that was posted for this week? i heard it was just going to make some reception
crappy and possibly slow down the internet from time to time but i dont know, maybe it could knock out a weak power grid too?

This is a common theme.
Create a problem. - Power outages, poor infrastructure, veto bills to alleviate the problem.
Have government ride to the rescue. - talktalktalk, government handouts, an overly large bill that has riders in it to further take away more
freedoms.

I may sound over the top (tin foil hat time!) but it was your gov. who said, "Never let a good crisis go to waste."

I was thinking along the same lines when the transformers were arcing in that Texas neighborhood (the one with all the different videos). I then ran
across several other threads here on ATS where similar things were happening across the world, not just in the US.

However, there is possibly some unusual strain on the entire grid in that region due to the massive flooding, tornadoes, excessive heat, now toss in
some space weather and you have a nice little mess. This is just grasping at what is easy to see, it might just be that some guys have been slacking
and have not done proper maintenance.

Originally posted by beezzer
This is a common theme.
Create a problem. - Power outages, poor infrastructure, veto bills to alleviate the problem.
Have government ride to the rescue. - talktalktalk, government handouts, an overly large bill that has riders in it to further take away more
freedoms.

I may sound over the top (tin foil hat time!) but it was your gov. who said, "Never let a good crisis go to waste."

With all respect, wasn't that Rahm E. that pulled that quip?
He was recently se-lected Mayor of Chicago... same thing, flame me.
Besides, "Why become Governor of New York when you can be Mayor?"
Was that Nelson Rockefeller? Somebody please straighten me out on that one...

Back to the thread, the power outages in Chicago's west suburbs are starting
to roll around, and we aren't even hooked to ComEd, we have a private firm that's
starting to hit the wall too.

We had a power outage this past weekend. It went out late Friday evening, and was out until around 9AM on Saturday.The energy company's
telephone-notification system said it was due to equipment failure. My suburb is just west of Milwaukee.

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